House at 4344 Frances Road · Photo: Paul R. Burley · CC BY-SA 4.0Vienna Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Only 6% work in Vienna Township; the top destination outside it is Flint (10%, 11 miles). There are 2,777 jobs in Vienna Township for 5,537 working residents. For jobs and income Vienna Township is better than 34% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (C).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Vienna Township, in brief
The better-paid jobs are outside Vienna Township
55% of Vienna Township residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 30% of the jobs based in Vienna Township pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 94% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
34% of the jobs based in Vienna Township are held by workers 29 or younger, against 24% of Vienna Township’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2021, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; 2021 is the newest year Michigan has published.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Vienna Township
Job access by car holds Vienna Township’s grade up (ahead of 61% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (7.2%, U.S. 5.2%).
The commuting and job counts on this page are Census LEHD 2021: Michigan reports later than other states, so its newest year is two years behind.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Vienna Township could be anywhere from C− to B−.
What Vienna Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vienna Township, 2011 → 2021: 2,117 → 2,777. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2021.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Vienna Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Vienna Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 5,215 residents head out to work, 322 work right here, and 2,455 people come in from elsewhere.
About 10,000 people are in Vienna Township on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2021, primary jobs.
Where people from Vienna Township work
Where Vienna Township clocks in
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
How long Vienna Township spends getting to work: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vienna Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,947 commuters (the 10% who work from home are left out). Across Michigan: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The commute from Vienna Township, by distance
About 26% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2021.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Vienna Township walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,483 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.6% of Vienna Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Vienna Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Vienna Township is 1,884th of 2,526 U.S. towns of 9,000 to 18,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Ada Township MI | 14,769 | $168K | 2.0% | 0.7% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Grosse Pointe Farms MI | 9,735 | $161K | 2.5% | 1.9% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,882 | Bedford IN | 13,962 | $50K | 16.2% | 2.3% | 27% | C |
| 1,883 | Polk Township MO | 13,673 | $57K | 19.7% | 2.4% | 47% | C |
| 1,884 | Vienna Township MI | 13,001 | $70K | 12.3% | 7.2% | 6% | C |
| 1,885 | Saddlebrooke AZ | 13,085 | $89K | 5.4% | 9.3% | 8% | C |
| 1,886 | West Lealman FL | 14,944 | $52K | 17.6% | 5.3% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,526 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Vienna Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
Work in the towns next to Vienna Township
The biggest share goes to Mount Morris Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Vienna Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vienna Township | – | C | C | 28 min | $70,219 |
| Thetford Township | under 3% | C | D | 32 min | $73,984 |
| Mount Morris Township | 2% | C− | B+ | 25 min | $46,535 |
| Montrose Township | under 3% | B− | C− | 28 min | $76,338 |
| Birch Run Township | under 3% | B | C− | 23 min | $82,375 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Vienna Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2021, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Vienna Township: questions
What is the median household income in Vienna Township?
$70,219 (±$5,593) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vienna Township?
12.3%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vienna Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vienna Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Flint (10%, 11 mi), Flint Township (6%, 12 mi), Grand Blanc Township (4%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Vienna Township walkable?
Vienna Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Vienna Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vienna Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vienna Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2021, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.